Frank Longo Member since Nov 18th 2003 86672 posts
Wed Feb-03-10 03:34 PM
8. "Nah. Every girl under the age of 30 will be lining up for that shit." In response to Reply # 6
It hits that Nicholas Sparks/The Notebook vein flawlessly. I forget where I first saw that trailer, but I saw collectively an entire theater's worth of girls turn their heads anxiously to their dates, who all let out a collective groan.
Frank Longo Member since Nov 18th 2003 86672 posts
Wed Feb-03-10 04:54 PM
17. "The Sparks films only really seem to hit with young actors involved." In response to Reply # 9 Wed Feb-03-10 04:56 PM by Frank Longo
See: The Notebook and A Walk to Remember, which didn't clean up, but made much more than its budget, and is a weepie folks bring up more than either Message in a Bottle or Nights at Rodanthe.
I think Dear John, with its attractive young people, will have a decent couple weeks and make its small budget back-- it will probably do roughly A Walk to Remember numbers.
Then, when the Miley Cyrus/Sparks collabo hits later this year... THAT one will be a real hit.
NOTE: I know Message in a Bottle made more than A Walk To Remember, but didn't it also have a much bigger budget? Also, the people who saw that movie are either dead, dying, or relegated to Lifetime and Oxygen Networks by now.
18. "Message in a Bottle was a flop (cost 80 million)" In response to Reply # 17
Yeah, I could see Dear John doing Walk to Remember numbers; 12 million opening and around 40 million. I don't think it has a prayer of hitting Notebook numbers.
Even still, the trailer was painful to get through and I think that, career-wise, it will be about as helpful as walk was for ol' Mandy and Shane.
35. "Like I said in the other post, his name is never plastered all over the ..." In response to Reply # 19
Not to excuse Cop Out, which I do think is going to suck (but NOPE! HE DIDNT WRITE IT SO THERE!)...but he isn't QT. He doesn't have, "The 7th Film from Kevin Smith" all over his shit. Hell, he doesn't even use the term, "A Kevin Smith Film" as he feels that's degrading to the other people who made the movie...he just uses "Written & Directed by..."
39. "Just let it be known that's who you are dealing with" In response to Reply # 37
someone who thinks "White Chicks" is (quote) "a great social commentary and one of the best movies of the 2000s" (unquote) (spelled it out for added emphasis).
No need to respond or take the bait from anyone with that opinion in life.
I have to believe that Smith rewrote and Morgan improved this shit out of this because I really can't believe that this script was widely considered to be one of the best unproduced screenplay of a couple years ago.
51. "That is WORLDS better." In response to Reply # 46
Maybe he was right...maybe there are so few clean jokes that the regular trailer was doomed from the start. Now I'm actually looking forward to seeing it.
49. "It seems like they use the "we have a black president" joke twice" In response to Reply # 0
I saw a couple of different commercials for this movie and I swear in one commercial they use that joke in a diner and in another commercial they are not in a diner. Did anyone else notice that or am I crazy?
"Desperately unfunny, tone-deaf homage to 80s buddy cop movies from director Kevin Smith - just one of the many who should have known better."
"A variety of scenarios provides ample opportunities for humor, yet most are lazily wasted."
"As rotten and laugh-free as the trailer. Just much, much, much longer."
"A soulless, witless, landfill contraption that Smith once would have mocked mercilessly."
"Smith's directorial style is far too slack for this material, which aims to be an homage to populist '80s classics like 48 Hrs. and Lethal Weapon, but only winds up resembling one of the bargain-bin knockoffs that floundered in those films' wake."
And Ebert: "Many of the gags possibly looked good on paper, but watching Willis and Morgan struggle with them is like watching third graders do Noel Coward, if Noel Coward had been rewritten by Kevin Smith. "
66. "Tracy Morgan kilt this." In response to Reply # 0
With that said shit could've been funnier. Bruce and Tracey played off each other well and I really liked that their already partners and friends when the film starts. It's nice to Ms. Jones paired up with a black man for once too.
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